Re: [Fwd: Questions on isc-dhcp]

2011-02-21 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 06:52 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 01:04 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Diego Nieto Cid, le Wed 16 Feb 2011 14:33:15 -0300, a écrit : .. > I will integrate your patch with my changes to a create proper patch. Almost complete by now, only dhclient-sc

Re: [Fwd: Questions on isc-dhcp]

2011-02-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Tue 22 Feb 2011 00:38:03 +0100, a écrit : > gcc -g fails_on_hurd.c > ./a.out > getifaddrs: (os/kern) successful It's a bug in pfinet, I'll handle that. Samuel

vm_size_t is unsigned, add vm_ssize_t?

2011-02-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, The getifaddrs bug is due to the following: /* Return a list of interfaces as expected by the SIOCGIFCONF ioctl. The maximum number of bytes returned can be given in AMOUNT, but if AMOUNT is negative, all interfaces will be returned. Always succeeds (and interface list will be tru

Re: vm_size_t is unsigned, add vm_ssize_t?

2011-02-21 Thread Roland McGrath
ssize_t is for things that either return a size_t value or -1. It's never used for parameters. I don't think a vm_ssize_t makes any sense. This is an odd way to use constructed the RPC interface for this, but we already have it and perhaps there was some reason to do it that way. You can just pas

Re: vm_size_t is unsigned, add vm_ssize_t?

2011-02-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roland McGrath, le Mon 21 Feb 2011 16:42:23 -0800, a écrit : > ssize_t is for things that either return a size_t value or -1. > It's never used for parameters. I don't think a vm_ssize_t makes any sense. > > This is an odd way to use constructed the RPC interface for this, but we > already have i

Re: vm_size_t is unsigned, add vm_ssize_t?

2011-02-21 Thread Roland McGrath
> So we need to change the RPC documentation to explicit "-1" instead of > "negative", right? Well, sure. There is nothing magical about -1, it's just that it will give the largest maximum that's possible. So you could remove the remark about a negative value entirely, or write something else th

Re: [Fwd: Questions on isc-dhcp]

2011-02-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Tue 22 Feb 2011 00:38:03 +0100, a écrit : > gcc -g fails_on_hurd.c > ./a.out > getifaddrs: (os/kern) successful To fix it you need both the hurd patch I've just pushed and the glibc patch Roland has just pushed. Samuel

Re: [Fwd: Questions on isc-dhcp]

2011-02-21 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 02:04 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Tue 22 Feb 2011 00:38:03 +0100, a écrit : > > gcc -g fails_on_hurd.c > > ./a.out > > getifaddrs: (os/kern) successful > > To fix it you need both the hurd patch I've just pushed and the glibc > patch Roland has just pu